Are you keen for a dino-licious day out with the family? All summer holiday long we have free, family-friendly, drop-in events in our main court. Check out our What's On page on our website to learn more! oumnh.ox.ac.uk/events

Last Chance! Our exhibition Fair Water's last day is 1 September 2024. Head over to our free upper gallery exhibition to learn all about fresh water security, and even see artwork from Aida Muluneh, Ethiopian photographer.

Today at Oxford University Museum of Natural History exhibition. Fair Water? When everyone has access to enough safe #water to meet their needs, balanced with those of the environment & when all #stakeholders can have a say in its management

Mary Buckland, née Morland, View of the Axmouth Landslip, 1840. On Christmas Day in 1839 a massive landslide occurred between Axmouth and Lyme Regis near where prominent geologists Dr William and Mary Buckland, were staying for the Christmas holidays.

This beast of a beetle (reaching up to 17.7cm) is native to South American rainforests and actually spends up to the first 10 years of its life as a larvae, eating soft wood under tree bark. It will only live as an adult for a few months.

Saw this beautiful phage in Oxford University Museum of Natural History Oxford. Love when we see our interested research topics in natural history museum which could be a life saver for many in future. #Bacteriophage #PhageTherapy #molecularmicrobiology #PhageScience

17.7 centimetres? That's huge! 7 inches in old money.

New episode out today! Recorded Live at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in Oxford, England—listen to folk icon Peggy Seeger talk with University of Oxford Biology Professor Tim Coulson (Prof Tim Coulson) about Eco Feminism, pre-patriarchal societies, and more. singforscience.org/episodes/peggy…

This exhibition is coming to a close! See it before the last day, 1 Sept

World Water Week is wrapping up, but we are still sharing water-related stories through our Fair Water? exhibition. This weekend is your last chance to visit Fair Water?, our most visited temporary exhibition ever.

We first opened our doors in 1860, but the Museum is more than meets the eye. In addition to the specimens that are on display in the main court, the Museum is actually in care of more than 7,000,000 specimens total.

We have enjoyed hosting an array of interns here at the Museum this summer. Undergraduate students have the opportunity to apply to work on a variety of research and public engagement projects across the Museum. See what intern Zoe gets up to in a day at the Museum!

For the last few summers we have had interns working on digitising our glass lantern slides, once used for teaching. These glass slides would have been used in a lanternslide projector. This slide features a fossilised brittle sea star.

It's the circle of life... Learn all about how nutrients cycle through an ecosystem in our new display, featuring a fox being scavenged by insects, a carrion crow, and a lynx.

New blog post titled 'Ubiquitous and Inconspicuous' is now live In this post uncover the invisible history of OUMNH’s glass display cases and considers how they have evolved alongside the museum during its 160-year history. morethanadodo.com/2024/08/15/ubi…

Exit, pursued by a bear

We are HIRING! The Museum is looking for a skilled Web and Communications Officer to manage the day-to-day delivery of the Museum of Natural History website. This is a permanent, part-time post, working 26 hours per week. LEARN MORE: oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/web-and-commun…

Have you ever seen such a deliciously beautiful Museum?! Our head of vertebrate paleontology, the phenomenal Dr Emma Louise Nicholls is not only mother of dinosaurs, but is also queen of cakes! Have you ever baked a cake or dessert inspired by us? We'd love to see it!

Two relaxed events from Oxford University Museum of Natural History + Pitt Rivers Museum Sat 28th Sept and Thurs 31st Oct 9-10am [Sept] oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/autism-f… [Oct] oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/autism-f… #Autism #autisminMuseums

In this new blog post, we share insights from the eight months she spent assessing, cleaning and repairing some of the most at-risk and important material in the archive, as well as some unexpected surprises our paper conservator found along the way… morethanadodo.com/2024/09/05/a-s…